A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings

We hereby report a case of a 55-year-old male with fever and difficulty breathing over several days who treated for presumed COVID-19 pneumonia despite testing negative thrice via reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) nasal swab. We explore several possible reasons for serially ne...

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Autores principales: She, Tianyu, Han, Haowei, Gandhi, Sandeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596083
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8266
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description We hereby report a case of a 55-year-old male with fever and difficulty breathing over several days who treated for presumed COVID-19 pneumonia despite testing negative thrice via reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) nasal swab. We explore several possible reasons for serially negative SARS-CoV-2 testing and other potential avenues of diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-73143632020-06-26 A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings She, Tianyu Han, Haowei Gandhi, Sandeep Cureus Internal Medicine We hereby report a case of a 55-year-old male with fever and difficulty breathing over several days who treated for presumed COVID-19 pneumonia despite testing negative thrice via reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) nasal swab. We explore several possible reasons for serially negative SARS-CoV-2 testing and other potential avenues of diagnosis. Cureus 2020-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7314363/ /pubmed/32596083 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8266 Text en Copyright © 2020, She et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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She, Tianyu
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Gandhi, Sandeep
A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings
title A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings
title_full A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings
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title_full_unstemmed A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings
title_short A Case of Novel Corona Virus With Three Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabbings
title_sort case of novel corona virus with three negative nasopharyngeal swabbings
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596083
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8266
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